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Read Works: A School Map
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction piece tells the story of a little girl who draws a map of the school for her little brother. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Portrait of an Artist
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shares a first person account of an artist's life. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: When (Seasons, Day, or Night)
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on Look! Snow! by Kathryn O. Galbraith, in which students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine basic time elements of setting in a story. Students follow this...
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Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: Where and When
[Free Registration/Login Required] Based on Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems, a lesson in which young scholars learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine a when and where the story takes place.
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Read Works: Kindergarten: Character: Lesson 1: Physical Attributes of a Character
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on David McPhail's Lost!, in which students are introduced to literary characters and explore the various clues, such as descriptions and illustrations, that communicate a...
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Read Works: Genre Kindergarten Unit: Tells a Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn that nursery rhymes tell a story and learn to retell that story in their own words. Texts are provided with free login.
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Uen: 1st Grade Act. 24: Interactive Writing
In this lesson, students will listen to nonfiction books about items that sink and float. Students will participate in filling in words to fill in a teacher-created chart that is connected to the information. Students will then write a...
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Lil' Fingers Storybooks
An interactive resource for children which features several online storybooks. Toddlers and children can read along, listen and learn as each story develops.
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Read Works: Kindergarten: Character: Lesson 3: Main and Secondary Characters
[Free Registration/Login Required] Based on stories Sheila Rae, the Brave and Jamaica's Find, this lesson plan will take students through the process of distinguishing main characters from secondary ones by relying on clues from the text...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Plot
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify story elements, retell a story using story elements, and see how characters affect the plot. Lessons are based on the books Dog...
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Read Works: Setting 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use pictures and word clues to determine the setting of fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by Paul...
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Read Works: Kindergarten: Character: Lesson 2: Actions of a Character
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on Kevin Henkes's Sheila Rae, the Brave, in which students learn how to use text and picture clues to describe and understand Sheila Rae's actions. With free login, users gain...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Character
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize a character's personality traits, predict a character's actions, and describe a character using rich language. Lessons are based on...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Setting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach learners to use context clues to identify the setting and changes within it. Lessons are based on the books Bigmama's by Donald Crews and The Stories Julian...
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Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: Where
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the book Gaspard at the Seashore by Anne Gutman to teach clues students can use to determine where a story takes place. The book must be provided by the teacher, but downloadable worksheets for...
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Scribd.: Kindergarten Reading Comprehension Lesson Plan: Main Idea and Details
A five-day lesson plan to teach students how to find the main idea of a story and generate a title, identify facts and details from a story, and differentiate between main idea and supporting details.
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Read Works: Main Idea 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to use titles and supporting details in both fiction and non-fiction texts in order to identify the main idea of the book in this three-lesson unit. The lessons utilize the books Animal...
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Writing Fix: Writing a Roundabout Story
In this lesson plan, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of organization. The content focus of the instructional activity is to highlight that authors' story structures can be...
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Wisconsin Rt I Center: Story Writing Frames [Pdf]
Teachers will learn how to use story writing frames with their students. Teachers will learn how to implement story frames; measure progress with story frames; and find research to support using story frames. A reproducible story frame...
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Read Write Think: Using Curiosity for Descriptive Writing
Lesson plan which allows kindergartners to combine their experiences and curiosity into developing beginning descriptions. Students use memories and illustrations in writing.
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Read Works: Plot Kindergarten Unit: Retelling a Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach retelling a story using plot elements through explanation, guided practice, and independent practice as students develop the skill. The text, My Red Balloon by Eve Bunting, must be provided by the...
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Read Works: Helping a Friend
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of literary texts that narrate teamwork-themed stories about a children's running race and a children's soccer game . Pictures, photos, and question sets are...
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Success Link: Descriptive Writing Mittens
Use this lesson plan to teach descriptive writing. A checklist is provided so students can self-monitor their writing.
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Better Lesson: rl.k.9
Written by Master Teachers, BetterLesson provides lesson plans for all core subjects. This site provides 15 lessons for RL.K.9: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar...